What is it about?
A polyglot poem about languages, our ancestors, empires, multilingualism and multiculturalism: Balalar of imperier - Children of Empires is a creative contribution with more than 40 languages and language variations. A multilingualism scholar and polyglot writer with several poetry collections, Sabira uses a wide range of linguistic techniques and academic research when writing creatively.
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Why is it important?
This multilingual creative contribution in poetic form uses an innovative approach and tests a new way of looking at code-switching. Johanna Domokos’ theory of degrees of code-switching, from an apparently monolingual text, to the highest degree where the matrix language is impossible to discern, was used as the foundation.
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The Russian attack on Ukraine in February 2022 set me thinking about how many of my multilingual and multicultural ancestors and their relatives had disappeared or were killed in wars and political turmoil caused by empires - or states pretending to be empires.
Dr. Sabira Ståhlberg
Independent Scholar
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This page is a summary of: Poem: Balalar of imperier, Journal of Literary Multilingualism, November 2023, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/2667324x-20230210.
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